Showing posts with label tubular selvage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tubular selvage. Show all posts

17/11/2014

Picture perfect - but I forgot :-(



Meg (over here) called all weavers to publish "beauty shots" of something woven.

I decided to participate, but... I forgot. What can I say? Old age, other things to occupy my mind, or just hopelessly sloppy?

Anyway, too late or too late, here are my contributions:

A "sun screen" with cotton warp (fishing line for accent), horsehair weft, fan reed:


Scarves with differential shrinkage:




More differential shrinkage ('cos it photographs well... or, at least, looks interesting)




Even if I am too late, kudos to Meg, and get over too look at the other contributors! (link at top)

21/08/2010

A tubular selvage for differential shrinkage

After some experimenting, I have constructed a threading for a tubular selvage that works well for differential shrinkage.
Using this:

I now get this:

instead of this:

Here is a longer artcle on how and why. (Swedish version here)